22/12/2001 The Indian Ocean Newsletter N°977

MADAGASCAR

Ratsiraka Knocked Out in First Round

A major slap against President Didier Ratsiraka is the lesson of the first round of Madagascar's presidential elections of December 16, 2001, which has opened a political crisis that may well descend into violence. For the first time in the history of the country, a Merina defeated a coastal rival (Ratsiraka) not only in the national capital and the provincial capitals, but in almost all the island's cities (except the eastern coast city of Toamasina). (...)   [614 words]   [€8]
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